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Recent Examples of bestiary
The one-eyed humans and Sciopods with umbrella feet, the whole exotic bestiary.
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Tishani Doshi, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
For the house’s third collaboration with the artists, Viard wanted Veilhan to recreate the apartment’s bestiary.
—Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
Designer Virginie Viard collaborated with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Penned in the 12th century, the Aberdeen Bestiary’s entry for beavers exhibits the classic medieval bestiary components of observation, imagination and allegory.
—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
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Tishani Doshi, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021
For the house’s third collaboration with the artists, Viard wanted Veilhan to recreate the apartment’s bestiary.
—Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
Designer Virginie Viard collaborated with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Penned in the 12th century, the Aberdeen Bestiary’s entry for beavers exhibits the classic medieval bestiary components of observation, imagination and allegory.
—Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
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Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness.Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Even absent conscious efforts to use them strategically, parables in pop culture can inform how audiences think about real-world politics—often in ways that authors don’t necessarily intend.Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2019
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Scarpa also wrote Scott’s J. Paul Getty fictionalization All the Money in the World, Napoleon, and the military-power allegory The Last Castle, but timely political coincidences sustain this otherwise hoary tale.Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
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But Frank Herbert’s epically imaginative sci-fi allegory wasn’t the sole source to give the character shape.Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Love Actually director Richard Curtis admits the 'stalker scene' is 'a bit weird' 07 of 20 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) A Willy Wonka-esque inventor brings magical toys to life in this exuberant Victorian steampunk fable.EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
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Now, a similar narrative is building once again, this time for her supporting turn in the August Wilson adaptation of The Piano Lesson, for which she’s earned standout critical praise for her arresting performance.Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the book, Andrews entwines two main suspenseful narratives.Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Bestiary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestiary. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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